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She wrote that the aides bathed Yvette "like a car," with cold water at times to punish her. When Yvette would scream, the aides would turn the hot water back on before the nurse in charge could arrive, according to the letter.

"There's much more but you can ask my family. "... They can tell you. I can't go on like this. She has been begging me to end it for two years," Diana Harden wrote. "My health is failing and I don't want to leave her alone."…

Because she was partially paralyzed, Yvette Harden could get around only with a wheelchair. But staff took away the motorized chair after Harden broke a glass patio door and bent the metal on a gazebo fixture in July 2008. She was given a manual chair that she had to be strapped into because it was too small and made the pain in her legs and back worse, according to Department of Public Health records.

She told her mother, "I want to die; I don't want to live without my wheelchair…"

It's terrible how these care workers treat people and get away with it. To bad the mother didn't try and get her family to help her first though instead of leaving them to explain the whys of whay she did.

People get beat down so bad they can't make decisions, they feel they are all alone and have no choices. It's amazing just how beat down a human being can get and yet still be alive.

What a sad story. I wholeheartedly agree with chestnut501. May I drop dead if I ever condemn people for doing these things.